ISLAMABAD, June 12, 2017: The Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa continued general discussion on the annual budget 2017-18 amid opposition’s walkout against unavailability of List of Business, reports Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) in its Daily Factsheet.

Following are some key observations of the proceedings during 4^th sitting of 25^th session:

Members’ Participation:

• The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly met for two hours and 14 minutes.
• The sitting started at 1437 hours against the scheduled time of 1400 hours.
• Forty-four two members (35%) were present at the start and 36 (29%) at the end of the sitting.
• The Speaker presided over entire proceedings while the Deputy Speaker was also present.
• The Chief Minister attended the sitting for two hours while the Opposition Leader was not present.
• The Finance Minister attended the entire sitting.
• The parliamentary leaders of ANP, JI, PML-N and QWP attended the sitting.
• Two minority members were present.
• Eight members applied for the leave.

Representation and Responsiveness

• Sixteen lawmakers took part in the debate on annual budget 2017-18. The discussion continued for an hour and 56 minutes.

Order and Institutionalization

• The entire Opposition walked out of the House for ten minutes against unavailability of List of Business.
•  Two Points of Order consumed 11 minutes of the proceedings.

Transparency

• Orders of the Day’ was available to the legislators, observers and others.
•  The attendance of lawmakers was not available to the observers and media.

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This daily factsheet is based on direct observation of the KP Assembly proceeding conducted by United Rural Development Organization (URDO) – a member organization of FAFEN. Errors and omissions are excepted.